After facing successive crises and devastating natural hazards over the last years, many people in the Caribbean are struggling to earn a living and meet their food and other critical needs.
It's not even noon in Satara, a remote village in Niger’s southwestern Tillaberi region, and the thermometer is already hovering near 40 degrees Celsius. The unpaved road to the village is bumpy and sandy.
A ray of sun spills onto 3-year-old Delight’s face as her mother, Angela, hands her a piece of homemade “mealie meal” — ground maize — cake.
Still warm from the stove, it’s a filling snack for Angela’s five children — she herself has become used to going without.
Angela smiles into the light.
At 69, Olga Lima has seen her fair share of droughts, floods and hurricanes in her native Dominican Republic. As she prepares lunch one recent morning, she recalls last year’s disasters that left her community reeling.
First a storm pummeled her town of Castañuelas, 20 km from the country’s northern coast.
This factsheet provides a concise overview of the work of the World Food Programme, summarizing the facts, figures and frontline work of the world's largest humanitarian organization saving and changing lives.
During the visit, he will discuss how food security and nutrition can be addressed through shared investments in agriculture and water management, nutrition-sensitive value chains and human capital development. He will meet with the country’s top food security and nutrition advocates, including the President of the Republic of Timor-Leste H.E. Jose Ramos Horta and Vice Prime Minister, H.E. Mr.
This brief explores the complementary and interconnected roles that social protection and resilience can play within development and the humanitarian–development–peace nexus.
A tattered football sails off the field at Shree Kakani Ganesh Primary School, in the central Nepalese village of Kakani. The game pauses, as 12-year-old team captain Ravi stops and strains his ears.
In May 2020, RBN established a Social Protection Learning Facility to enhance evidence-based decision making, learning and accountability in WFP’s social protection work in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks.
The TOR notably presents the scope, objectives, key issues, stakeholders and users of the evaluation. It also describes the evaluation approach, team composition and organisation.